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Hertford County Hospital is situated in the town of
Hertford Hertford ( ) is the county town of Hertfordshire, England, and is also a civil parish in the East Hertfordshire district of the county. The parish had a population of 26,783 at the 2011 census. The town grew around a ford on the River Lea, ne ...
,
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of
Hertfordshire Hertfordshire ( or ; often abbreviated Herts) is one of the home counties in southern England. It borders Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire to the north, Essex to the east, Greater London to the south, and Buckinghamshire to the west. For govern ...
,
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. It is managed by the
East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust was created in April 2000, by merger of the former East Hertfordshire and North Hertfordshire NHS trusts. It runs Lister Hospital, Mount Vernon Cancer Centre, the New QEII Hospital, Hertford County Hospital, ...
.


History

The origins of the hospital lie in the General Dispensary which was established in one room of
Hertford Castle Hertford Castle was built in Norman times by the River Lea in Hertford, the county town of Hertfordshire, England. Most of the internal buildings of the castle have been demolished. The main surviving section is the Tudor gatehouse, which is ...
'for the relief of the sick poor by affording them gratuitous advice and medicine' with permission from the
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of Hertfordshire, in 1822. The foundation stone of a new purpose-built hospital was laid by the John Kaye,
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on 17 July 1832 and the General Infirmary, as it became known, opened to in-patients on 3 July 1833.
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was brewed and served at the hospital until 1834. In the late 19th century the hospital was supported by funds from local people including
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. The facility became Hertford County Hospital in 1908 and, following a substantial reconstruction of the building that took place in 1916, it joined the
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in 1948. A further re-development of the site, which cost of £8.5 million, took place in 2003; the scheme, which involved the construction of new facilities and the release of the older buildings for residential use, was completed in November 2004.


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External links


Hospital webpage
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